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Poison Prison

on: January 21, 2009, 05:48:13 am

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #1 on: January 21, 2009, 05:53:48 am
No description? - What's the intent? What's the purpose? What are you going for? Who is this dude? Looks like Cell from DBZ, on crack-cocaine.

Unless you're after "wow, koooool" responses, some explanatoriness, w/o that I don't know if you hit the bullseye on this or totally overshot and broke a window instead.

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #2 on: January 21, 2009, 10:17:30 am
No description? - What's the intent? What's the purpose? What are you going for? Who is this dude? Looks like Cell from DBZ, on crack-cocaine.

Unless you're after "wow, koooool" responses, some explanatoriness, w/o that I don't know if you hit the bullseye on this or totally overshot and broke a window instead.
I really hate it when art needs an intent or purpose.
I mean a doodle is a doodle and a avatar is just an avatar, doesn't need a story behind it.

I think the helmet lacks volume, could be the orange going all the way across that makes it seem flat.
The face shows the volume that the helmet lacks.
Also the face is a bit messy a lot could be done to clean it up and use the colors better more on the highlighted side.

I don't know if the "poison bolt thing" is like shooting into his head or behind him.
Perhaps make more of a splash then like random spikes. or even just some spikes at the bottom, smaller ones.
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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #3 on: January 21, 2009, 12:09:46 pm
It's Lagann with the arms and legs concealed. I don't get the title so some description would indeed be nice. So it's trying to be something specific since it's fanart, but i don't get the backround either.

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #4 on: January 21, 2009, 12:32:39 pm
Poison Prison is one of the tracks from the Gurren Lagann OST.
And the picture is a rendition of the CD Cover.

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #5 on: January 21, 2009, 01:40:09 pm
Whoa, I uh... didn't know a description was that vital. Um, so yeah. Its what panda said, here's a picture of the CD cover.

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #6 on: January 21, 2009, 02:14:09 pm
Your head is too small and too low on the canvas.
Also not sure I like the purple face.

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #7 on: January 21, 2009, 02:17:41 pm
Too small for what? Its the only thing there.

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #8 on: January 21, 2009, 02:24:50 pm
Exactly, and almost a third of the canvas above it is empty blackness, without the head filling it.

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #9 on: January 21, 2009, 02:28:48 pm
I really hate it when art needs an intent or purpose.
I mean a doodle is a doodle and a avatar is just an avatar, doesn't need a story behind it.

Souly, don't be silly. Art always has a purpose. A lot of art may not aspire to anything grand; just being repititous practice, though. I never said everything needs a full backstory. But here, Tuna was attempting to mimic this CD cover in a totally different style - pixel art. Once he's explained that, we're now empowered to critique it more effectively are we not?

I like it, Tuna. Good translation to pixels. I'd like to see it a little bigger. Just because it's a neat-looking character; I'd like to see more detail. But there's definitely merit in pixeling this small and it retaining recognition. And I agree on the composition issue, it does seem like it's sunken down on the canvas, compare your use of space to the original cover. Easy fix. Nice!

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #10 on: January 21, 2009, 02:57:52 pm
'Kay, life lesson learned. But anyway, easy cop-out fix.

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #11 on: January 22, 2009, 04:32:26 pm
Just popping in for the sake of being a boring mod, but Tuna, err.

Rule no.2


Do not rip artwork. Ever!

Always clearly state what your references were in making a piece. If you sketched in pencil, color-reduced to 1bit and then went to work on it, okay. Ways like this are completely accepted and nobody's going to shout at your for it, but it's good to know anyway. If you stole somebody else's artwork, 1bitted it and then submitted it for critique, not okay. If caught red-handed, by moderators or users, and the case is clear you ripped, you will be banned and forgotten forever. Other similar instances of fraudulent behaviour like posting other people's artwork without permission (regardless of them being edited or not) or jobs without delivering the promised payment will reap similar rewards.


The lower text is not particularily relevant since you didn't attempt to steal artwork, but the first sentence ALWAYS APPLIES.

You did something from reference, you state it. There's no bad intent here whatsoever since you're connecting the piece to the anime consciously with the thread title.

Still, just remember it, dude O:

The RULES , you should read them
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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #12 on: January 23, 2009, 12:55:28 am
I...I thought that issue was already resolved? But anyway, 'nother update.

Ready to submit to PJ? y/n

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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #13 on: January 23, 2009, 03:42:42 pm
It sure was, but it seemed to appear since you weren't completely familiar with the rules and stuffs so I spelled it out for ya.
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Re: Poison Prison

Reply #14 on: January 23, 2009, 04:08:20 pm
Naw, I read them. Just slipped my mind.

Jad doesn't want to bump this thread unnecessarily anymore: Ok, that's fine!
« Last Edit: January 23, 2009, 04:20:05 pm by Jad »